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Coal Workings, Eudon Mill

  • HER Number (PRN): 07006
  • Site Name : Coal Workings, Eudon Mill
  • Monument Type:
    • Coal Workings (Post Medieval)
  • Civil Parish:
    • Chetton , Bridgnorth, Shropshire
  • Grid Reference: SO 6887 8963
  • Related Interventions:
    • 1996 field observation, ESA3467
  • Brief Description: The site of post medieval coal workings.
  • Description: Coal Pit <1>

    Old Shafts (Coal). A linear group of four shafts running SW-NE-SO 6882 8959-SO 6894 8976. <2>

    Old Shafts. <3>

    Open space-field. No workings depicted. <4>

    IRIS site SA/SCMC/DP15 at SO 6862 8955. Two clear shafts / shaft mounds, with two other features which might be spoil tips, or partly destroyed additional shaft mounds. On the west edge of a field in which the OS marked two shafts in 1883, and to the south the tithe map records the next field as Coal Pit Bank. <5>

    IRIS site SA/SCMC/DP14 at SO 690 892. Faint but extensive remains of spoil tips from colliery found over an approx 4 ac filed. Tips have either been partly levelled or eroded to give the appearance of low earthworks. Field is adjacent to mid C19 (?) clayworks, but this has been ploughed out. Documentary sources: Tithe Map, Chetton; R Baugh 1809 Map of Shropshire; Bridgenorth Journal, Oct 29th 1859, sale notice of Tedstill Brickworks. <6>
  • Record Type: Monument
  • Sources:
    (01) Map: Greenwood C & Greenwood J. 1827. Map of the County of Salop. 1 inch to 1 mile.
    (02) Map: Ordnance Survey. 1891. OS County Series 66NE, 1891. OS County Series. 66NE. 1:10560.
    (03) Map: Ordnance Survey. 1954. OS SO68NE, 1954. OS National Grid Series. SO68NE. 1:10560.
    (04) Map: Ordnance Survey. 1979. OS SO68NE, 1979. OS National Grid Series. SO68NE. 1:10000.
    (05) Field recording form: Poyner David R. 1996. IRIS Form. IRIS form. SA/SCMC/DP15.
    (06) Field recording form: Poyner David R. 1996-May-08. IRIS Form. IRIS form. SA/SCMC/DP14.
  • Tags:
    • Coal Workings
  • Related Places:
    • Chetton, Bridgnorth, Shropshire (Civil Parish)
  • For more information contact: Shropshire Council HER
  • Date Created: 24/04/1997
  • Date Last Edited: 21/11/2018 11:22:17


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